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M. GRBIGHTON.

WORK BENCH.

No. 291,881. Patented Jan. 15.1884.

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MILLAPD CREIGHTON, OF MARBLEHEAD, MASSACHUSETTS.

WORK-BENCH.

SPECIFICATION forming part'of Letters Patent No. 291,881, dated January15, 1884.

Application filed November 23, 1883 (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, hIILLARD CREIGI-ITON,

of Marblehead, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented anImprovement in Board-Supporting Mechanism for Carpenters Benches, ofwhich the following description,in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representinglike parts.

My invention relates to attachments for carpenters and other benches,the object of the same being to permit the ready and easy support, in ahorizontal plane, of a board or other piece of lumber upon one edge atthe side of an ordinary earpenters bench, so as to enable the otheredges to beplaned, tongued, grooved, or otherwise operated upon, asmaybe desired.

By my invention I also provide for the support ofboards of differentwidths, so as to bring their top surfaces or edges to a given height orplane to be operated upon, or to provide for the support of boards ofdifferent widths, or boards of substantially the same width, in suchmanner that the top surfaces or edges may be maintained at differentheights, so as to be accommodated to the heights of different per sonsthat may operate on the same.

To these ends myinvention consists, primarily, of an attaehmentto anordinary carpenter s bench, said attachment being composed of two ormore perforated or recessed plates secured to or in one side of saidbench, and a boardsupporting strip provided with two or morelocking-plates adapted to engage the said perforated plates, and thushold said strip to the side of the bench in differenthorizontal planes,substantially as hereinafter more fully described, and particularlypointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an ordinary carpenters bench providedwith abench-vise and showing my improved attachment applied thereto.Fig. 2 is atransverse verticalpartial section on the line 9000*,Fig.1,but on an enlarged scale. Fig. 3 is an elevation of one of theperforated plates; and Fig. 4. is a rear perspective of one of thelocking-plates, withits tongue or catch.

The bench A and bench-vise 13 are of ordinary construct-ion.

Secured to and flush with the side a of the bench A, and disposed atright angles to a line drawn longitudinally through said side, are twoplates, 0, each having anumber of perforations or recesses, 2, arrangedone above another at suitable distances apart.

D represents the board-supporter or strip, made, preferably, of wood,and of any desired length and shape, said strip being provided at itsback or rear surface with twoloeking-plates, E, secured thereto, each ofsaid plates having a tongue or catch, 0. These tongues or catches enterrecesses 2 in the plates 0, said recesses being in the same horizontalplane, so as to engage said plates and lock the supporter or strip D tothe side of bench A. The side a is partially cut away or recessed backof the plates 0, and at or near the perforations or recesses 2, topermit free movement of the engagingtongues e in the recesses 2, so asto insure the locking of strip D to side a, as stated. The

supporter or strip D has its upper or support ing surface, (Z, beveled,as shown in Fig. 2, so

as to present an acute angle with relation to the side a when saidsupporter is locked or applied thereto, the purpose of which is to causethe board,while being operated upon, to hug or be held against the sidea, and to prevent the bot.- tom of said board from slipping or workingoff the top (1 of said supporteror strip D. Especially is this apparentin the case of thin boards whose lower edges are brought considerablybelow the upper and outer edge of the top (I and within or nearer to theside a than said upper and outer edge.

\Vhen a board is supported on the supporter or strip Dto be operatedupon, the bench-vise B, or other suitable meanssuch as a wooden pin heldin orifice made in the side a of the bench Amaybe used to preventendwise play of said board while being planed or beaded or otherwiseoperated upon. If desired, more than two perforated plates, A, may beset into the side a and arranged equidistant apart, so that thesupporter D may be held to said side at different parts thereof.

I claim 1. The improved bench attachment, consisting of two plates, 0,provided with a number of perforations, 2, and of two locking-plates, E,having rigidly-attached hooks e,to enter the perforations of the saidplates 0, the locking plates being adapted to be attached to the rearside of the strip D and support the same at the side of the bench towhich the plates 0 are attached, substantially as and for the purposeset forth.

2. The bench A,h aving the perforated plates 0, said bench beingrecessed or cut away at the rear sides of the said plates, theboard-supporter or strip D, havinglocking-platesE e, to engage with theperforated or recessed plates 0, and suitable means for preventingendwisc movement of the board to be operated upon, in combination,substantially as described.

3. The bench A,havin g th e perforated plates

